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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team was headed by Colonel Philip Cochran, better known as the prototype of Flip Corkin in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates.* When Cochran reached India in 1943, Wingate's expedition had been called off for lack of transport planes. Cochran calmly announced that this was no problem ; gliders would do the trick. Through and sometimes over Wingate's persistent doubts, Cochran reconstructed the tactics of the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Flip in Burma | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

What little fun this frail comedy offers comes not from its hard-working principals but from two supporting players: Virginia Field, playing a flip, catty blonde who exchanges hisses with Linda over McNally, and Nestor Paiva as the Mexican owner of a broken-down fishing smack, who takes a gleefully perverse delight in his own misfortunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Quarterback Gill O'Neil, better known as a blocker, started the Crimson on on its way again, taking the kickoff on his 29 and ripping to the 47. Harvard kept right on moving, mostly on the ground, although Ederer flipped once to Clasby for 13 and Ossman compounded his fake by pretending to pitch out, then passing over the line for 12 more. Ossman utilized a straight buck at 11:07 to score the touchdown which broke Bruno's back. The Bruins were able to score early in the fourth quarter, mostly using a clever optional pitchout. Leone would circle...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Inspired Eleven Rips Brown, 34-21 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Near the Mount Zion Methodist Church just outside Atlanta, on Highway 41, a onetime barbecue pit has been turned into a Bible classroom. One evening recently, eleven disciples watched Robert L. West go over and flip off the light switch. "It's kinda dark in here without the lights," apologized West, as he walked behind the crepe-wrapped white cross now lighted up by two candles, "but I would ask you to look upon this symbol-perhaps the greatest in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Open has enough of a hard-running attack, built mainly around Charlie Collins and Bob Smith, to keep the Closed defense sufficiently drawn in to let Greeley flip more than a few good passes...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Open, Closed Clash In Fir House All-Star Game Today | 11/3/1951 | See Source »

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